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advice in dealing with fundamentalist inlaws praying at meals?
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RE: advice in dealing with fundamentalist inlaws praying at meals?
I feel like the only thing you can or should do is to either politely excuse yourself during the prayer, or continue endure and to not participate. If you are at their house, it would be rude to interrupt their ritual.

If you want to express your displeasure, you could calmly state things from your perspective. But stay on your side of the tracks. Don't make them perpetrators, but just say that you are uncomfortable, and therefore you're going to remove yourself from the situation so as not to interrupt their prayer. Keep all the onus on you, not them.

They are allowed their prayer. It is not incumbent on them to change their daily ritual to accommodate you. They are not being rude by praying. But you are absolutely allowed to advocate for yourself and remove yourself from the situation.
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RE: advice in dealing with fundamentalist inlaws praying at meals? - by SteelCurtain - June 7, 2014 at 11:31 am

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